"I suppose the things that you always take for granted, that you don't even notice, are what you miss the most."

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Sarra Manning

#Missing Quotes #Granted Quotes

“In setting out the walls of a city the choice of a healthy situation is of the first importance: it should be on high ground, neither subject to fogs nor rains; its aspects should be neither violently hot nor intensely cold, but temperate in both respects.”
“I'm almost incapable of lying. I'd be a terrible spy.”
“The only time I'm pleased with myself is when I'm exhausted and shaking from having written too much.”
“As a 29-year-old, the only thing that I can possibly think is that if I'm still performing at 50, it's because I'll have had disastrous marriages and I have to pay for them.”
“The Iranian people have a proud past. They merit a great future.”
“I'm not going to change who I am just because people think it's weird. The only way I'm going to have a great season is by starting out happy and balanced and continuing to be me. It might be unconventional, but to feel good about life I need to have some adventure.”

Source : "The man in the Van" by Eli Saslow, www.espn.com. March 5, 2015.
“I used to live in a little city by the sea, and the feeling of isolation - it was not like living in Paris or London. It was a bit apart from the main city, and [it gave me] this feeling of isolation and also being close to nature, with nature as a surrounding and also a frontier, from the society of the world.”
“If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms never never never!”

Source : Francis Thackeray, William Pitt (1827). “A history of the Right Honorable William Pitt, Earl of Chatham: containing his speeches in Parliament : a considerable portion of his correspondence, when Secretary of State, upon French, Spanish, and American affairs, never before published with an account of the principal events and persons of his time, connected with his life, sentiments and administrations ; (Mit dem Bildnisse Pitts)”, p.327

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